Larry Grubbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Grubbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Grubbs |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBBS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mad Men, mad world
How we forgot the Cold War
Betting on the Africans
President John F. Kennedy's personal diplomacy with African leaders is explored in depth in this sympathetic study. Though Kennedy's Africa policies and American aid programs have been extensively discussed in recent scholarship, Philip E. Muehlenbeck adds to our knowledge of the president's role in shaping policy and using his personal prestige to blunt communist influence in postindependence Africa. “Kennedy's interest in Africa,” we are remind…
The Bay of Pigs
by Howard Jones, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, reprint edn, 2010, 272 pp., US $15.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780199754250 Nicaraguan president Louis Somoza, a loyal if unsavory client of
Descent Into Chaos
"Workshop of a Continent"
Journal Article “Workshop of a Continent”: American Representations of Whiteness and Modernity in 1960s South Africa Get access Larry Grubbs Larry Grubbs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2008, Pages 405–439, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00699.x Published: 08 May 2008
B ringing “T he G ospel of M odernization ” to N igeria
Drawing on recent studies of development discourse, this essay explores the impact of two American academics affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Nigerian economic planning in the 1960s. Their published and unpublished writings provide a dramatic demonstration of how development discourse skewed American and Nigerian perceptions of reality, contributing to the failure of nation building during the First Republic. American …
B ringing “T he G ospel of M odernization ” to N igeria
Drawing on recent studies of development discourse, this essay explores the impact of two American academics affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Nigerian economic planning in the 1960s. Their published and unpublished writings provide a dramatic demonstration of how development discourse skewed American and Nigerian perceptions of reality, contributing to the failure of nation building during the First Republic. American …
Betting on the Africans
President John F. Kennedy's personal diplomacy with African leaders is explored in depth in this sympathetic study. Though Kennedy's Africa policies and American aid programs have been extensively discussed in recent scholarship, Philip E. Muehlenbeck adds to our knowledge of the president's role in shaping policy and using his personal prestige to blunt communist influence in postindependence Africa. “Kennedy's interest in Africa,” we are remind…
B ringing “T he G ospel of M odernization ” to N igeria
Drawing on recent studies of development discourse, this essay explores the impact of two American academics affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Nigerian economic planning in the 1960s. Their published and unpublished writings provide a dramatic demonstration of how development discourse skewed American and Nigerian perceptions of reality, contributing to the failure of nation building during the First Republic. American …
"Workshop of a Continent"
Journal Article “Workshop of a Continent”: American Representations of Whiteness and Modernity in 1960s South Africa Get access Larry Grubbs Larry Grubbs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2008, Pages 405–439, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00699.x Published: 08 May 2008
Descent Into Chaos
The Bay of Pigs
by Howard Jones, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, reprint edn, 2010, 272 pp., US $15.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780199754250 Nicaraguan president Louis Somoza, a loyal if unsavory client of
Mad Men, mad world
How we forgot the Cold War
Betting on the Africans
President John F. Kennedy's personal diplomacy with African leaders is explored in depth in this sympathetic study. Though Kennedy's Africa policies and American aid programs have been extensively discussed in recent scholarship, Philip E. Muehlenbeck adds to our knowledge of the president's role in shaping policy and using his personal prestige to blunt communist influence in postindependence Africa. “Kennedy's interest in Africa,” we are remind…
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